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Here's to The Poster I Haven't Made Yet
Life took me away from drawing once, and MS pushed me back toward it. A story about show posters, the artists behind them, and why art keeps me connected to a world that is getting physically harder to move through. Read more...
Why Wildlife?
People sometimes ask why I spend so many hours drawing a single animal. The internet is enormous. You can find a photo of just about anything in seconds. It can feel like information overload. Every animal imaginable is right there at your fingertips. Now, most of us don't print random wildlife photos from the internet and hang them on our walls. We scroll past them. They're interesting for a few seconds, and then they're replaced by the next thing. Take a dik-dik, a saiga, or even a giraffe. A giraffe... Read more...
A collage showing the artist's colored pencils, drawing tools, a puffin artwork in progress, and the artist smiling at his desk
A Different Kind of Patience
The Process, One Layer at a Time Every drawing begins the same way. I lightly sketch the subject using a white pastel pencil on Clairefontaine Pastelmat. It’s nothing fancy, just... Read more...